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UH Volleyball season filled with success
letdown at season's end costs Cougars
Steady as ever, it was
success again for the
Cougar volleyball team in
1999.
UH (21-11) earned its
eleventh-straight bid to
national postseason play
and ninth-consecutive
invitation to the NCAA
championship tournament.
With the NCAA streak
approaching double-digits,
the Cougars remain one of
only 13 schools in the
nation that have been to
nine-straight NCAA
Tournaments.
The team upped its
string of consecutive winning seasons to 18 in a
row. The streak of 18 winning seasons is currently
the seventh-longest in the
nation.
The Cougars were
impressive in notching
their 12th 20-win season
in the last 13 years and the
volleyball team has actually averaged 22 wins per
season over the last six
years.
In the process, UH tied
for the best record in
, but a small
C-USA Title
Conference USA (13-3) to
win the league's National
Division.
Junior middle blocker
Michelle Frazier was
named the C-USA Co-
Player of the Year and an
All-District VI choice by
the Volleyball Coaches
Association. Senior Kristin
Guidish and junior Bobbi
Stewart were third-team
all-conference selections.
Unsuprisingly the team
and individual success
comes from the leadership
at the top, where Head
Coach Bill Walton has
been at the helm of the
program for 14 seasons.
This year Walton
reached not one but two
career milestones. On
October 10 in a 3-0 sweep
of Memphis he notched
his 500th career win.
In the the team's very
next match five days later,
a 3-0 sweep of Marquette,
he became the winningest
coach in Cougar volleyball
history at UH with 300
wins.
• by Andrew Ferraro
Team fpitit
UH volleyball members gather
together to provide encouragement for each other before a
game.
Photo by Barry Watson
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Jillian King (10) flies into the air as
she tries to send back the Owls'
serve in Houston's 3-0 win over
Rice on Nov. 3.
Photo by Max Lacayo
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Morgan Wallen (3) sets the volleyball as Houston prepares an
offensive attack.
Photo by Pin Lim
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